Hello all! As I understand it is OH...Staying in the same line as my last offering :) there it goes:

http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/7880/pprune3.jpg

Somewhere in France

Yep (that part was not too hard I guess...)

How about northeast France?

asw

Are those old bomb craters top left and just off centre right of the photograph ?

Not northern France (so far all my proposals are in the same region...)...Top left are machine gun positions or foxholes...I couldn't say better. If you look closely you will see the the airfield has been abandoned (photo is end of 43) probably in 41 or 42.
It is however very much in the state it was left at this point: nothing has been looted here, the area is still a red zone for inhabitant and will stay that way until august 44.

It's either my eyes or my age, or both. But I'm damned if I can even see an airfield?

Not all airfields were concrete based..especially in 1940, date of creation and main use of this one (according to RAF analysis up to 35 Bf 109 have been based here...). This photo shows 21 individual hangars plus at least four netted open air revetments.

The take off area begins between the two copses/farms and goes toward NE where one can see the telltale set of trenches forbidding any further use of the airfield.

Those trenches were a very sure way of identifying the landing/T/O areas of german grass airfields once they were abandoned or at least put on reserve.

I guess we are going to need some further clues on this.

Wissant, France ?

Not far away. It is one of the many fields created during the Battle of Britain but lasted a bit longer than BoB duration along with some other closeby... nearest large town is Calais (I could show you a 2009 photo where Calais is visible from the field...).

JV

St. Inglevert ?

Isn't Calais in Northern France?

Coquelles or Peuplingne

Congratulations to Nvubu! This was indeed Peuplingues...one of the rare BoB places this side of the Channel to still have some visible remnants...

You have the floor!

Thank you

Well that was a pure guess, although now that you say I'm right, I've found the location on GE here at 50°53'47.07" N 1°45'09.68" E

I can't seem to access Photobucket at the moment, so I'll declare Open House

Hippo - there's some kind of problem with PB - a couple of weeks or more ago I found I could not get onto the PB website at all - with IE8.

Seems they've got a new website - but fortunately they've kept the old one running. I found that I could access the new website with Firefox - but then I couldn't do what I wanted with my album.

I elected to revert to the old website (via the new) - but its tricky. However I managed it and now I use Ffox and bookmark to go straight to the old site - and then managed to post my pix OK.

Is seems nothing has improved since then - because its the same for me today. I will find time to call them.

This might not be the problem you have, nor the cure, but HTH.

I see you had no problem with the Frantic pix on the 9th, but ASW used imageshack.

Anyone else ?

LFH

Photobucket
 

New site does not work for AOL users - just freezes including the link to the old PB.

Works Ok using Chrome but their new upload system seems to require Windows 7, 8 or Vista - not XP

I was using the new site fine until today's attempt. I'm using Windows 7 & IE9 lots or javascript errors

Well that was painful - I've connected via XPMode & IE8, stepping through the Javascript errors :ugh:

Here's the first image I've uploaded, where is this?

http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/.../20121118A.jpg

I've now managed to get connected and see things in Win7/IE9.

Tools/Internet Options
Uncheck "Disable script debugging (internet Explorer)

OK

Load photobucket,
When the WebPage error comes up, debug with built in script debugger
Press F5 each time it halts - about 6 times for the front page.

be careful with the F5, once too many, and it'll re-load the page:ugh:

Here's a few other photos of the same aerodrome from different viewpoints.

http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/.../20121118B.jpg

http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/.../20121118C.jpg

http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/.../20121118D.jpg

I know of at least one aerodrome in France which was made unusable in the same way (quite a famous one) but this not it...
This one has fixed heavy installations which are from before the war. I suspect (considering hangar type) a German airfield...And yet that would be the first time I see a deliberately abandoned and condemned such airfield in Germany...It could be then a Dutch one but most of the main still used Dutch bases in 44/45 had concrete runways...
I am dumbfounded!